Let me just ask this. What exactly do you think LE should have done with the 3 tips from the MR?
First call. Say you are an OSCO deputy and you respond to a call about a stinky trash bag on Suburban Drive. When you get there the caller is gone and you see nothing on the side of the road except swamp. What do you do?
Third call. You are a different OSCO deputy and you respond to the stinky trash bag call. This time the caller waits for you. There is nothing visible on the side of the road and the swamp is full of water. You get nearer to the swamp, but a 4' rattlesnake awaits your next step. You see nothing and you smell nothing. What do you do?
Oh in hindsight, I suppose you suggest that the deputy shoot the snake. Officers can not simply shoot undesirable animals or reptiles! They can not just shoot their guns to kill a snake that they can just walk away from for pete's sake. There are rules about firing their handguns! Especially in a residential neighborhood and on private property!
A stinky trash bag in an illegal dump site is not a sufficient reason to shoot wildlife!
Do you expect that the report of a stinky trash bag in an illegal dumpsite in a swamp should be reason for LE to swarm out in full force, drain the swamp and start rummaging through all the trash bags, tires, whatever, to find a trash bag which is not visible and which no longer emits an odor discernible from the edge of the swamp?
There was a post here by a WS'r who went out to look at the site. She reported that in her opinion anyone taking a step of two beyond the cut grassy area would likely stumble upon a tire, a trash bag or some other junk that someone threw in there.
I can not blame this officer for not wading into this mess, it would have been an exercise in futility. I also can not blame them for not launching an all out search for a trash bag in a swampy illegal dump site because someone thinks they smelled something foul. A dead snake stinks to high heaven, as does a dead armadillo, racoon, opossum, alligator, dog, cat not to mention the rotting stench that eminates from a swamp.
Don't blame LE for not immediately deciding that a stinky garbage bag report was actually Caylee's body. Blame KC for putting her there and not telling anyone. Put the responsibility where it belongs.